Does Cognition Translate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karin Kukkonen (0000-0001-5240-3280, University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 243-259 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-8172556 |
| OpenAlex | W3037823725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
Comparative literature and cognitive literary studies both consider literature as a worldwide phenomenon. The move toward world literature in comparative literature made salient the issue of reading some texts in translation, and world literature turned its attention to whether texts are entirely translatable and how center and periphery in the "world republic of literature" are organized around languages that are predominantly translated (or translated into). This article proposes that cognitive literary studies and comparative literature could enter into conversation around the topic of language differences and translation. For cognitive literary studies, the approaches of predictive processing and embodied cognition have in recent years developed the conceptual means to include these differences in our discussions without falling back on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Language shapes thought, but it does so in a flexible exchange between verbal markers and language-created contexts. The author models this exchange for literary texts by means of salient verbal markers that indicate plot events and outlines possible shared avenues of future research for cognitive literary studies and comparative literature along these lines. The examples discussed are the Finnish national epic Kalevala, its French and English translations, and the contemporary novel Sankarit by Johanna Sinisalo
Cognition · Cognitive science · Comparative literature · Embodied cognition · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literary language · Reading (process · Salient · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices · Artificial Intelligence
Surfing Uncertainty
Supersizing the Mind
Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond
Born Translated
The Translator's Invisibility
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self
Words and the World
On The Language Instinct
The Predictive Mind
Hijacking Translation
Against World Literature
Globalization and cultural diversity in the book market
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |